Reflections
Reflections
Reflections
Are We Shaping a New Armenia?
Last year, I spent the summer in Hayastan, researching the effects of the Velvet Revolution. With a borrowed video camera, I took taxis, marshrutkas and back alleys to the unmarked offices of NGOs not used […]
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From Armenian Revolutionary Demircioğlu regarding Diyarbakir Prison
Translator’s note: This article was first published in Agos in 2011 by Funda Tosun and later in the Gazete Demokrat on April 14, 2015. It really touched me deeply on many levels when I discovered […]
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Need Not Apply
“Only candidates younger than 50 years old are eligible for this position.” “Well, Milen jan, I just got 56 years old. I think I am too old for them.” Shocked and disheartened by the unwritten […]
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Calling All Armenian Men
“Hi, are you from Armenia?” “Yes, how do you know?” “I just read the last three letters of your surname on your badge. Nice to meet you, I am Pablo from Spain. I was a […]
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The Birth of a Genocide Scholar
The coverage of the Armenian Genocide in publications like the Toronto Globe to the New York Times has helped scholars point out the truth. In this reflection piece, which appeared originally in the newspaper TorontoHye, […]
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My Pilgrimage to Kirk Kerkorian’s Final Resting Place
“What is the name of your loved one?” asked Norma, the operator who answered the phone when I called the Inglewood Park Cemetery to ask about the gravesite of Kirk Kerkorian. I considered for a […]
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A Time For Everything
It was King Solomon, the wisest man to walk the globe, who stated in the Book of Ecclesiastes “what do workers gain from their toil?” That toil is what my father and many visionaries had […]
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An Armenian in Minnesota
Many Armenians of the diaspora ended up in California. Another group settled on the east coast. My destiny was in Minnesota. In 2009, at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, I won an academic exchange fellowship to […]